chart parsing is reduced into a set of matrix operations dealing with sparse matrices. Appendices list sample grammars and lexicons, which brings substance to the claims. "Speech" in this book refers to English only, which is never made explicit. This seems to be the normal case in American literature, however. Of course, most of the contribution is relevant to other languages as well. The book...

Why is this book in English? An insider can offer several answers, such as these: 1. Because the Editorial Group insisted that all papers be in English. 2. Because English is the native language of the book's honoree. 3. Because all of the authors can write in English, and some can write only in English. 4. Because Mouton can sell more copies of an all-English book than of a plurilingual book. ...

The book ‘Developing expertise through experience’consists of twenty chapters written by language educators. Alan Maley has edited the book. The writers of the chapters have written their stories and experiences about learning English and being an Educator with regard to the notion of ‘sense of plausibility’ defined by Prabhu. Prabhu explains that plausibility in pedagogy is teachers’ intuition...

Book synopsis This book presents a richly illustrated, hands-on discussion of one of the fastest growing fields in linguistics today. The authors address key methodological issues in corpus linguistics, such as collocations, keywords and the categorization of concordance lines. They show how these topics can be explored step-by-step with BNCweb, a user-friendly web-based tool that supports soph...

locus of control is said to affect learners' academic achievement. this effect has scarcely been examined within general english context. this study is concerned with examining the differences in general english (ge) course achievement among university students of humanities, sciences, and engineering. it also explores the effect of locus of control (loc) in ge course achievement among these th...

Robert Boyer, a leader in régulation theory, characterizes the crisis provoked by COVID-19 pandemic his latest book. His analysis centers on political process which different groups of entities with heterogeneous interests compete against each other and make compromises, interaction processes affecting public health, economy, finance, freedom. In this book review, we carefully introduce main ar...